Rob Williams

Nothing for months and then two posts in a couple of days. Like London busses, this blog.

Just heard from Eddie Deighton @ Com.X that you can now buy Cla$$wars issues 1 & 2 through the iTunes store for 99c (that’s 59p to Brits). Read it on your iPhone or iPod Touch! Details below:

Com.x are pleased to announce, in collaboration with Iconology, Inc., that Com.x comics are now available for download from the iTunes store. The first wave of releases features Cla$$war #1, #2 and Path. These will be followed by the rest of the Cla$$war series and other, soon to be announced, titles.

The application is available for £0.59 or ¢99, dependent upon your location. Once you have purchased the app, which enables you to read the comics, you will be able to download Cla$$war #1 and the first chapter of Path FREE OF CHARGE! If you like what you see, you can then download the rest of the books for 59p/99¢ and £1.79/$2.99 for Cla$$war and Path, respectively.

[About Iconology, Inc. - Since 2007 Iconology, Inc. has been working to expose more people to the world of comics, through comiXology.com and related applications. comiXology.com, brick-and-mortar comic book
retailer tools, iPhone and Blackberry apps and digital comics are all connected through the comiXology platform.]

In other news, my DARK X-MEN: THE BEGINNING story is in issue two, on sale July 29. Gorgeous cover from Jae Lee here:

Comic Book Resources have just put a three page preview of my story online. You can find it at:

http://www.comicbookresources.com/prev_img.php?pid=3107&pg=7

And my MEET DARREN DEAD story did indeed start in the Judge Dredd Megazine this week (issue 287). It’s on the cover, in fact – beautifully drawn by John Higgins. This is a three-parter that features the ghost of a giant panda murdering its way through the Magic Circle of Mega City One.

And finally, the new issue of SFX has just turned up, which features a six-page interview I recently did with Grant Morrison, which tries to cover his entire career, and fails.

God, it’s been ages since I updated. Apologies. So much so that I can barely remember everything that’s happened since my last post. Erg.

Well, the major news is that I was confirmed as the writer of the new ROBOCOP series from Dynamite. You’ll find an interview with me here at Newsarama about it:

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/060916-Robocop-Williams.html

Should be loads of shooty, bullety fun, this. No Alan Bennett-like slice-of-life soliliques about biscuits going mouldy in the back of a corner shop here. No release date yet but I’ll keep the blog posted. Honest.

What else? I’ve got an 11-page Daken (son of Wolverine, mohican, claws, tattoes can’t miss him) story running in DARK X-MEN: THE BEGINNING. I’m pretty sure it’s issue two, although it could be three. Wherein I take Daken and Norman Osborn to the opera, because that’s what X-Men comics need more of. Opera. Huge fun to write Norman Osborn, and also nice to have a story in the same issue as Paul Cornell, who’s a friend. My other upcoming Marvel comic hasn’t been solicited yet, so I’ll keep schtum on that.

In similar shhhhhh style, I’ve also written a one-off Christmas special for a different ’80s film license. One of my favourite movies, this, so writing dialogue for the characters was on a par with writing Indiana Jones and Han Solo for me. A geeky fanboy thrill. Again, I’ll speak up as soon as I can. Oh, and I wrote it in the hottest week of the year, so snowy festive delight runs through it.

The CLA$$WAR hardcover continues to do well, both in terms of sales and press. I interviewed Geoff Johns (namedrop) this week for an upcoming SFX special and he told me how much he loved the hardcover and what a great package it is, which blew my mind, slightly. I still can’t get my head around the fact that people in California are reading my work, let alone people in California who happen to be one of the top writers in the industry.

And just heard today that the CLA$$WAR softcover is being solicited for an October release in Previews. So cheapskates can now get their copy too.

Speaking of which (softcovers, not cheapskates), I received my comp copies of the INDIANA JONES AND THE TOMB OF THE GODS graphic novel this weekend, a few weeks after my STAR WARS: VECTOR VOLUME TWO comps.

And, on top of all that, I’m sure MEET DARREN DEAD: EATS, SHOOTS AND KILLS starts in either the next JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE or the one after, with art by John (Watchmen) Higgins. No one tells me anything.

Sounds busy, doesn’t it? Good. Busy is good. More busy please.